For the love of trolls
Torvald the Tenacious
The last of the gorgeous trolls/ogres Gerry sent me (thank you Gerr <3), has been dressed. There’s no rhyme or reason as to why this one was last. Just like the others, he has blown me away with the amount of details and character sculpted into him. Such a pleasure to paint from start to finish.
It seems like I am trying out something new with each of them. And with this one, I’ve been using the Scale Artist colors for the first time. I really like them. They will definitely be part of my go to paints. What I don’t like so much about them is storing them. I am gonna build some kind of ‘pull out’ mechanism under my table, much like you had for keyboards in older times. For now they’ve been chucked down a plastic container, hanging of one of my Raskog paint stations.
These are the paints I’ve used:
Skin: Golden Skin + Olive Green, Golden Skin, Golden Skin + Vanilla White, Light Skin + Vanilla White
Pants: Art Black, Art White
Stitches: Dark Brown Ochre, Raw Sienna, Vanilla White
Reds: Crimson, Dark Brown Ochre, Naples Yellow
Leather items: Dark Brown Ochre, Yellow Ochre
Bagpack: Buff, Wood, Earth Green, Art White
Drum: Orange, Naples Yellow, Buff, Art White
Wood: Pearl Grey, Inktense Wood, Pearl Grey
Metals are Scalecolor Black Metal, GWs Nuln Oil, Scalecolors Heavy Metal, GWs Retributor Armor and GWs Reikland Flesh
Is that troll from the Alternative armies flintloque range?
I have no idea 🙂 But I am willing to bit a fair amount of plastic that @avernos knows 🙂
Don’t think anyone is going to take that bet 🙂 You have done a lovely job on these, particularly like Watson. Those paints look interesting, I’d assume that a little paint goes a long way on a model (if that makes sense).
Thanks Rob 🙂 Yes, they seem long lasting, though they still retain the translucency Scale is known for. I really like that I control how and with what to thin them, and not what the company has used. And it seems so much easier controlling the amount I out on the palette. They do, however, have a smell to them. I don’t mind it. It reminds me of other heavy body acrylics. But it is worth mentioning in case people are bothered by it.
Thanks for the info. I miss the smell of Devlan Mud, so don’t mind weird smelling paints! Must put it in my memory bank and pick some up to try at some stage.
Not sure when it comes to retail (I think they’re just about done shipping to backers). But it’s pretty much ‘just’ a heavy body acrylic. So if you aren’t wanting the extreme mat effect that the Scale colors have, you will do just as well with say Golden’s or Schmincke’s Heavy Body Acrylics. And on the plus side of that, you can get those in many if not most art stores and you can buy them single pieces instead of sets. Might be worth trying one or two of those first.
It’s a Khaurik guard from cadwallon by rackham